PERFORMANCY FORUM: QUINQUENNIAL

PF: QUINQ was a 12-day conference of live performance, talks, discussions, workshops, and curatorial projects, October 8-October 25, 2015.

conference = a situation during which persons confer
conference = a “con” like “comicon” for makers and fans
conference = a culmination of a period of labor
conference = states of being and becoming together.

The conference was performatively organized in 3 Layers by Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle :

LAYER 1: Was performed as a sequence of diagram-interviews performed in person and online, for TAR Magazine and as part of APAB’s Curating Performance Art as Artistic Practice conference in May 2015 in Berlin. Following this one-year period, 12 AGENDAS were synthesized from the diagram interviews into the list of agendas listed below. Fill out the diagram-interview here: http://www.panoplylab.org/research/

LAYER 2: Abstracts by invited participants and open call respondees were made/written in reaction and relation to the 12 AGENDAS. They were then published HERE.

AGENDA: to be without agenda

AGENDA: to create something i want to be a part of.

AGENDA: to resist and reduce

AGENDA: to keep going

AGENDA: to pursue ideation

AGENDA: to move towards multiplicity and flexibility

AGENDA: to liberate the selfAGENDA: to escape from hellworld

AGENDA: to become a symbol of freedom and glorious madness

AGENDA: to feel things with other people

AGENDA: to push my own abilities

AGENDA: to dismantle capitalism

LAYER 3: 12 days of live meetings, performances, lectures, discussions and other projects take place Thursday-Sunday for three weekends in a row at PPL Space and Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NY: